Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
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- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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